9. Membership

Member List

For transparency purposes, we are disclosing each Guild member’s team, the name/identifier, and a link to their work. This set will evolve over time as members leave core development or change teams.

	Team	Name / Link to work
1	0xSplits	donations.0xSplits.eth
2	Akula	Artem Vorotnikov
3	EF DevOps	Parithosh Jayanthi
4	EF DevOps	Rafael Matias
5	EF Geth	Guillaume Ballet
6	EF Geth	Jared Wasinger
7	EF Geth	Marius van der Wijden
8	EF Geth	Matt Garnett
9	EF Geth	Peter Szilagyi
10	EF Ipsilon	Andrei Maiboroda
11	EF Ipsilon	Jose Hugo de la cruz Romero
12	EF Ipsilon	Paweł Bylica
13	EF JavaScript	Andrew Day
14	EF JavaScript	Gabriel
15	EF JavaScript	Holger Drewes
16	EF JavaScript	Jochem
17	EF JavaScript	Scotty Poi
18	EF Portal	Jacob Kaufmann
19	EF Portal	Jason Carver
20	EF Portal	Mike Ferris
21	EF Portal	Ognyan Genev
22	EF Portal	Piper Merriam
23	EF Protocol Support	Danny Ryan
24	EF Protocol Support	Tim Beiko
25	EF Protocol Support	Trenton Van Epps
26	EF Research	Aditya Asgaonkar
27	EF Research	Alex Stokes
28	EF Research	Ansgar Dietrichs
29	EF Research	Antonio Sanso
30	EF Research	Carl Beekhuizen
31	EF Research	Dankrad Feist
32	EF Research	Dmitry Khovratovich
33	EF Research	Francesco d’Amato
34	EF Research	George Kadianakis
35	EF Research	Hsiao Wei Wang
36	EF Research	Justin Drake
37	EF Research	Mark Simkin
38	EF Research	Proto
39	EF Research	Zhenfei Zhang
40	EF Robust Incentives Group (RIG)	Anders
41	EF Robust Incentives Group (RIG)	Barnabé Monnot
42	EF Robust Incentives Group (RIG)	Caspar Schwarz-Schilling
43	EF Security	David Theodore
44	EF Security	Fredrik Svantes
45	EF Security	Justin Traglia
46	EF Security	Tyler Holmes
47	EF Security	Yoav Weiss
48	EF Solidity	Alex Beregszaszi
49	EF Solidity	Harikrishnan Mulackal
50	EF Solidity	Kaan Uzdogan
51	EF Solidity	Kamil Sliwak
52	EF Solidity	Leonardo de Sa Alt
53	EF Testing	Mario Vega
54	Erigon	Andrey Ashikhmin
55	Erigon	Enrique Avila Asapche
56	Erigon	Giulio rebuffo
57	Erigon	Michelangelo Riccobene
58	Erigon	Tullio Canepa
59	Ethereum Cat Herders	Pooja Ranjan
60	Hyperledger Besu	Daniel Lehrner
61	Hyperledger Besu	Danno Ferrin
62	Hyperledger Besu	Gary Schulte
63	Hyperledger Besu	Jiri Peinlich
64	Hyperledger Besu	Justin Florentine
65	Hyperledger Besu	Karim Taam
66	Independent	Guru
67	Independent	Jim mcDonald
68	Independent	Peter Davies
69	Lighthouse	Adrian Manning
70	Lighthouse	Diva Martínez
71	Lighthouse	Mac Ladson
72	Lighthouse	Mark Mackey
73	Lighthouse	Mehdi Zerouali
74	Lighthouse	Michael Sproul
75	Lighthouse	Paul Hauner
76	Lighthouse	Pawan Dhananjay Ravi
77	Lighthouse	Sean Anderson
78	Lodestar	Cayman Nava
79	Lodestar	Dadepo Aderemi
80	Lodestar	dapplion
81	Lodestar	Gajinder Singh
82	Lodestar	Phil Ngo
83	Lodestar	Tuyen Nguyen
84	Nethermind	Daniel Caleda
85	Nethermind	Jorge Mederos
86	Nethermind	Łukasz Rozmej
87	Nethermind	Marcin Sobczak
88	Nethermind	Marek Moraczyński
89	Nethermind	Mateusz Jędrzejewski
90	Nethermind	Tanishq
91	Nethermind	Tomasz Stanzeck
92	Prysmatic	James He
93	Prysmatic	Kasey Kirkham
94	Prysmatic	Nishant Das
95	Prysmatic	potuz
96	Prysmatic	Preston Van Loon
97	Prysmatic	Radosław Kapka
98	Prysmatic	Raul Jordan
99	Prysmatic	Taran Singh
100	Prysmatic	Terence Tsao
101	Quilt	Sam Wilson
102	Status	Dustin Brody
103	Status	Etan Kissling
104	Status	Eugene Kabanov
105	Status	Jacek Sieka
106	Status	Jordan Hrycaj
107	Status	Kim De Mey
108	Status	Konrad Staniec
109	Status	Mamy Ratsimbazafy
110	Status	Zahary Karadzhov
111	Teku	Adrian Sutton
112	Teku	Ben Edgington
113	Teku	Courtney Hunter
114	Teku	Dmitry Shmatko
115	Teku	Enrico Del Fante
116	Teku	Paul Harris
117	TXRX	Alex Vlasov
118	TXRX	Anton Nashatyrev
119	TXRX	Mikhail Kalinin

Addresses and Weights

For member privacy, the order of weights here does not correspond to the names above. These addresses and weights will change over time as members change from fulltime to part-time (or vice-versa), or as new members start contributing to core development.

Read more about how weighting is determinded in 6.3 Weighting

	Address	Weight as a percent
1	0x384BfE9C770313d13c36F365437ba4C86f7EdfA8	0.3045
2	0x31e4B877B9033fcc355aF129Fcd387031007BBf0	0.3255
3	0xC9187b5C81d63b289811A4fcb9AC7ADb7103639e	0.3817
4	0x7777788FB971B414EE0B4422367325151207C836	0.3986
5	0xab8b3647EF7FF66D2f38ee5eaEf2b158c4eb52A2	0.4149
6	0x88DCc684da24Fd0aaE0770Dfa2223E7B7476Ad94	0.4306
7	0x18dEd4aBf3C0B8aE1108788127F33E02988249dA	0.4306
8	0x5E5EF2c688E6CE34A1d4b4771780716fE06848FA	0.4306
9	0x3ed9D598b2099d99e9e49B1697729027C67926d2	0.4603
10	0x530eca5d32c1bf2865327df76f6dbc73dea1af5c	0.4603
11	0x66EE965FfC43D985633D04A044B47B7Ba8952EE1	0.4603
12	0x5869C17c8934Ce9f674e88c7d4f8F94DCE193FCB	0.4745
13	0xfbbECa029104953F039537a111D07A6aC0549c3c	0.4882
14	0x9b796F2de75772f1634D78A3AB23A03778D3702a	0.4882
15	0x8360470F1793C91c953be453fcA52CC63dfCb367	0.5147
16	0xe8FEE6186cbcF0790644D59f04cC5C085FBA68Bb	0.5147
17	0x4Bfa4639Cc1f4554122aBB930Aa897CDAe90d13b	0.5147
18	0xEd46bFFd4b8237a9c7E08f55F0B410544f989813	0.5398
19	0x046Fb65722E7b2455012BFEBf6177F1D2e9738D9	0.5398
20	0x8ce466bD577396786C76Da8629314fcce5bE2A5f	0.5398
21	0xEB8E7c90014565EEd8126110630eFa2d9CD6eBE4	0.5398
22	0x975D1040E93316917BD67dD32a02e1929F8aF8D3	0.5398
23	0x3d5D2AC4fEcF16bb1651A445d5B17f977A823546	0.5398
24	0x0906Eb682C6d12EdBE5e0A43E60068E1A7F8bea3	0.5638
25	0xc66EFCcB88b3b7BdE6fC476d8cF139DD38075Ad7	0.5638
26	0x00cDD7Fc085c86D000c0D54b3CA6fE83A8a806e5	0.5638
27	0xFBFd6Fa9F73Ac6A058E01259034C28001BEf8247	0.5638
28	0x9e7fa612eb6E771B0E918D94A0d524D6666Fa07E	0.5638
29	0xe2A296b3d3AD4212b6030442e70419ff7B82FEE4	0.5638
30	0xf363C519F91E823184061e5BF28263262E2b9B8d	0.5868
31	0x2A89178555a3e7d19218f28DF0B0Ec732E889e18	0.5868
32	0x661b81d462D80786c442774F452464A8C627a20E	0.5868
33	0x2fb858991668840ce34F331402E0b3C66db078AF	0.5868
34	0xf0869c68b91013bf214db68d503c65f9ba44097c	0.5868
35	0x980a85ba6c2683e3509752dd3b4eB50165C0e65F	0.5868
36	0x77b34f5E620e8Cfd1839b245beAADd27ae3A25FB	0.6089
37	0x78ac9c2545850bEDbC076EB30ce7A6f0D74b395E	0.6089
38	0x2D56Cd519540bE541A3261E22e95d6507F5504Ca	0.6089
39	0x3210287ddEe6ece40d17A1F39799239b972A81F2	0.6089
40	0x153afFb96Fcb60085Ee307996Bdd2df0183A3682	0.6089
41	0x50122A5509F628e901F9c0238F0168833753239b	0.6303
42	0x10c8597a5063A1648FfE13f54E996ba9bB3217B5	0.6303
43	0x0760E844e6f368ce73F1eEB917d37Db19375De3B	0.6303
44	0xf0443945aD3BE9645382FC2537317dA97FEfF3A9	0.6303
45	0x0B916095200313900104bAcfc288462682C38700	0.651
46	0x5AC41B7E73680a3E77B941fEE0BAD04F59c9bB7d	0.671
47	0x84f678A3e7BA8Fc817c32Ff10884D6FB20976114	0.671
48	0x2bf7b04F143602692bBDc3EcbeA68C2c65278eee	0.671
49	0xE35b6f8E759Ac242585E2F41Ac29A2baAf4c4e96	0.6808
50	0xCb8DC3beC7B659022aE0d3E9de17322F31e4AA7C	0.6905
51	0x5abAdE91eD4B6d11b666280CaCb3E4A32898f39B	0.7094
52	0x4d5083dd10f2a46f26f5583c6679f9f8d30ae850	0.7094
53	0xC152fd31F285f6c0B3807070280595e7Ea713a7f	0.7278
54	0xbC349D1BEeE33c61F0395d1667E70056B4C869B9	0.7458
55	0x644177F8D79117c2b9C7596527642B3c2D05888E	0.7634
56	0xb721c2e6640D963e99b37B6437ABAF6914A25A5e	0.7634
57	0xF8843981e7846945960f53243cA2Fd42a579f719	0.7804
58	0xa1D76553266fA8Ed3D143794a462aaFAdfC34f74	0.7973
59	0x925F5d6cCdB04F56fBa1cdcAd92E4eBb0d421411	0.8137
60	0x49Aa00072a7BA8a5639C43Fe9F6536820E6F5d57	0.8137
61	0xC6cA7c3427AD6B7a06fbED6D18C394E540E31814	0.8457
62	0xFf9977FB117a22254a8eB6c6CE8d3Dd671FA70DC	0.8535
63	0x9915C453cc779109013F1aF0c4639277e8257212	0.8612
64	0x46cD90445349e64F895c403c23839e79eb4065e4	0.8612
65	0xBc11295936Aa79d594139de1B2e12629414F3BDB	0.8764
66	0x65a63ceE206bFA6B2a3287479D28c8902B4055E9	0.8914
67	0x88dF07c605d13915B8E7D07dc8efD538dC0C5620	0.8914
68	0xE4b99f9580B90d88C3e6dC3E0B853D8D3b0B8B55	0.8914
69	0x9d6d3b09F8AC8615805bd82e53B80D956F451CFa	0.8914
70	0x92699d64C65c435D4a60E2ceEaEb931dB8B1cA09	0.9061
71	0x35bc6a44AcFb79b5A47C1cbe2fD3C560a093a2B1	0.9061
72	0xa29576F07eAaD050AeACbc89AC0518B62fe2F88E	0.9206
73	0xe05875F287C028901798aC2Dc8C22Ba908b8eF36	0.9349
74	0x00d3baf1080b1cfb5897225a21ecdcc25a1f4456	0.949
75	0x799681f9b9d7c55ed59f5a0f235cAb132Cde0a2B	0.949
76	0xb7A593EC62dc447eef23ea0e0B4d5144ac75ABC5	0.949
77	0x1ecaea79D739BC222D6dB2d6bf63F869a329a702	0.9765
78	0xD4a3030b5f5e8DD4860d370C17E8576aE9951a2D	0.9765
79	0x10ab73AA48D686b7FD9ec9D50418a14DD23f6631	0.9765
80	0x6e22a5e30088c8389dc725bbead5f0675334299f	0.99
81	0x71c15691e243bE88220957C784053EF0E084440B	1.0032
82	0x24113fFB07189D1e6E169025A424B58C29522972	1.0293
83	0x6B29132ea388a308578c1d3Be068D0e4fc9915a2	1.0421
84	0x50d5e44700c10873875b4E75C4c9396562D83bE1	1.0421
85	0x873a45B49289b868E81547c6226357E7117e6070	1.0547
86	0xd20BebA9eFA30fB34aF93AF5c91C9a4d6854eAC4	1.0547
87	0x4B3105E9EC2B6069c1362388D429625a026f43e0	1.0547
88	0x05618d6EFFe2E522F07B1dB692d47A68bfD6fFEa	1.1038
89	0xa87922d0074bCd82Ac82816633CcE68472548955	1.1157
90	0x86F34D8b98171281AB8bFe65C7e2718E4f002e35	1.1157
91	0xf5441a1b900a1D93e4c06CB9c3fDbA39F01469f0	1.1276
92	0x7e59Df833869E2997d05e163D6004f3344A052FA	1.1276
93	0x0000006916a87b82333f4245046623b23794c65c	1.1276
94	0xAb96014a7c078f09418Cf899Bf197CadFf023C16	1.1508
95	0x1de6938d9f9ebd43D0Cc56f0CeF1657D954c9A94	1.1508
96	0xCA186e78bf657d4C5694CA5CA448D3766d2b55Bb	1.1736
97	0x00a2d2d22f456125d64beda5a6f37273a13d9de0	1.1848
98	0x57c5D54F7293CDE1FC129e4159cB07F48752ea61	1.1959
99	0x3212974a4e53e5238f6ea193b36412db9ad61c26	1.1959
100	0x6fFd2248Ab7E80ef51D7Eb4CB60964C830125567	1.1959
101	0x3eD7bf997b7A91e9e8aB9eE2F7ce983bd37D6392	1.207
102	0x5973D1af5c13168bdC85c6e78309272815995Ffb	1.207
103	0x376D5C3a16E9d015e8C584bB2d278E25F0ccb27B	1.207
104	0xf71E9C766Cdf169eDFbE2749490943C1DC6b8A55	1.207
105	0x9F60E4aF6020cc6a791B2d1Ce9902d25A72bA824	1.207
106	0x3B16821A5dBBFF86E4a88eA0621EC6be016cd79A	1.2287
107	0xF51fc4c6Ab075482b61F5C1d4E72fADaFf8815F3	1.2395
108	0xe019836A41CB707F79b991f60e241918097aC16e	1.2501
109	0x8cbf722adfbc071a12aae158a12a68397578017c	1.2606
110	0x299cB850bD75C07ef89978Bdc52e062Cc4fA0250	1.2606
111	0xBFbeaB0896E29d0Db26ad60278d3Ab3C482BB199	1.2606
112	0xdF6C53Df56f3992FC44195518A2d8B16306Af9ff	1.2815
113	0xbB3F2F946E8eE2912830e365cF241293636cb057	1.2815
114	0x797AbA41FD90740a2cA970d6706Af05aDe09335B	1.2918
115	0x497f0D190C513f51eAC234628200a5E62271a7A5	1.3421
116	0xE9F19B6C72219f9B12C9c367405a90Ac9aFb2241	1.4557
117	0x974B9cb3c122561e3bf6234651E0b82B88Fb9015	1.518
118	0x9Bee5b17Eb847744b6a81Ee935409739F91c722c	1.5525
119	0x6591e7D655f248f6930195385C36b8D5Af679B8B	1.5525

Quotes

We’ve asked members to share why they think the Protocol Guild is important for Ethereum: here are a few of their responses:

Adrian Manning (Lighthouse) - “Lighthouse is the Rust implementation of Ethereum Beacon Chain, a key component in Ethereum’s transition to PoS Although Lighthouse is one of a few major production Eth2 clients, it’s imperative that more than 1 production client is used in the space to avoid the chain collapsing if bugs/vulnerabilities are found in a single client. Protocol Guild supports the teams working on minority clients, which is an important initiative.”

Alex Stokes (EF Research) - “The Protocol Guild is an experiment in public goods funding that aims to align the incentives of core protocol contributors with the continued stewardship of the ecosystem by allowing these contributors to share in the value created by their hard work. This mechanism is important for the future of Ethereum as it ensures continuity of protocol direction, maintenance, and growth amongst a set of dedicated individuals who deeply care about realizing the collective vision that inspires everyone who interacts with our community.”

Alex Vlasov (TXRX) - “Ethereum - and blockchains, in general - unveils tremendous opportunities and one of them is building a more fair world. Protocol Guild serves several purposes: 1. It’s an instrument for public goods funding, which is often underrated 2. It’s a research and an exploration of innovative social mechanisms 3. It aims to support Ethereum Protocol contributors”

Ansgar Dietrichs (EF Research) - “I strongly believe that not enshrining a contributor funding mechanism into the base chain was the correct choice for Ethereum (crucial for its credible neutrality). But in order to keep attracting top level talent to the core dev space, we need to experiment with out-of-protocol ways of funding. Protocol Guild is a very exciting project in that regard and hopefully a first step towards a sustainable funding structure.”

Anton Nashatyrev (TXRX) - “I would really love to see Guild as an instrument for long term incentivisation of people who just want to develop Ethereum and don’t want to worry about buying food for themselves tomorrow ”

Carl Beekhuizen (EF Research) - “As researchers we spend a lot of time worrying about incentive compatibility. This guild nudges us towards a better incentive landscape for those working on the protocol.”

Core Contributor - “A huge ecosystem is building up upon the base Ethereum protocol. If we want this base layer to remain independent and maintained like a true public good, incentive alignment is a key factor. Let’s make the Protocol Guild an inspiring and successful experiment! ”

Core Contributor - “Decentralized Apps. Decentralized Ecosystem. Decentralized Funding.”

Core Contributor - “Decentralized eco-systems are hard to build, and client diversity is harder but super important for a robust social code consensus on a protocol. That requires on-par commitment, perseverance, continuous innovation, learning and contributions. And not to mention community support!”

Core Contributor - “Ethereum is public infrastructure for the world. Building infrastructure is hard, because everyone wants to enjoy it, but no one wants to be the chump left paying the bill, which often induces zero-sum thinking and protecting one’s own interests rather than contributing. Protocol Guild ensures stability for those who choose to contribute and creates an environment of positive-sum thinking, powered entirely by the Ethereum ecosystem and the value it brings to the world.”

Core Contributor - “Ethereum refers not only to the Ethereum fundation organization, but to the entire community related to the ethereum protocol. However, all economic incentives for protocol core dev now mainly rely on EF’s salary. The PG project fills this vacancy and let community incentivizes protocol devs via this approach. This is critical to keeping and attracting ethereum protocol builders.”

Core Contributor - “I believe this experiment will result in a great precedent on how to keep the core values of the Ethereum protocol alive and relevant.”

Core Contributor - “Incentive alignment is one of the core issues that impact the long term health of a software/network. I think the Protocol Guild helps solve a part of the incentive alignment problem by allowing members to gain exposure to the network they are developing. I feel like it will go a long way in helping keep and onboard new core developers, as well as ensure everyone has skin in the game.”

Core Contributor - “It is important that we allow those that contribute to the core protocol the opportunity to be financially rewarded on a similar scale as those that choose to operate in the private sector. Without such a mechanism, the choice to work on the core protocol is also a choice to forfeit monetary rewards offered elsewhere, which in many cases, will lead to continual attrition of talent into the private sector.”

Core Contributor - “It is important to retain talent in this industry, and the Protocol Guild provides a mechanism for doing so. Decentralized public goods funding of the researchers and developers that build the underlying technology have good chances of benefitting the applications built on top, long term.”

Core Contributor - “It seems like really great way to incentivise work on core ethereum protocols.”

Core Contributor - “It should help to bring and keep talents in the Ethereum core dev group.”

Core Contributor - “It’s great to see the incentive problem trying to be solved for existing and also new core contributors.”

Core Contributor - “It’s sad that those who develop open technologies have historically profited far less than those who build on top of open technologies. I think that the Protocol Guild is the start of something very important to Ethereum.”

Core Contributor - “Let’s make base layer r&d long term sexy!”

Core Contributor - “maybe the log4j exploit might not have happened with more funding, let’s try to make the same not happening on Ethereum.”

Core Contributor - “Motivating talent towards Ethereum development is critical to stay competitive in this dynamic industry.”

Core Contributor - “Protocol contributors enable the creation of value. Rewarding them proportionally to the value created can sustain their work and attract additional talent. Token contributions from successful projects is a great way to achieve that.”

Core Contributor - “Protocol Guild is a great way to reward Ethereum core developers for the infrastructure work that they are doing.”

Core Contributor - “Protocol Guild is a platform for the community to acknowledge and appreciate the talent and dedication that keeps Ethereum going.”

Core Contributor - “Protocol Guild with its rewards and governance system which is beyond casual wages or project grants inspires members to apply their efforts to the Ethereum development in unrehearsed ways and directions where forces of EF and big companies are missed. It preserves guarantee of strong presence of the community forces over major pathways safeguarding decentralization of the Ethereum. ”

Core Contributor - “prysm implements the ethereum beacon chain proof of stake protocol. The beacon chain is important because eliminating proof of work is a moral imperative. Multiple implementations of the beacon chain do and should exist for the resilience of the network. prysm is written in go, which is a language designed to minimize the complexity of strongly typed, highly concurrent source code. This means that prysm can be performant, have good support for safety and correctness, while also being built from source code that is easier to read and audit than other system languages. More eyes on the implementation should lead to greater understanding of how the system works and more confidence in the network.”

Core Contributor - “The Ethereum ecosystem is capable of delivering enormous value. But a huge disparity has arisen between the rewards available to those who build the Ethereum protocol and those who build on the Ethereum protocol. The whole community should be concerned about this: unless the foundations are continually maintained and improved, the entire building is at risk. Almost uniquely, our own technology gives us the tools to align all our incentives. The Protocol Guild is a creative approach to recognising and rewarding the foundation-builders - essential if we want to continue to deliver on Ethereum’s promise long into the future.”

Core Contributor - “The Ethereum Foundation, however successful beyond what might have been reasonably expected of it, still comprises a single point of failure. The protocol guild can help ensure the values the foundation has helped shepherd can sustainably adapt in a decentralized fashion consistent with Ethereum’s core principles.”

Core Contributor - “The Guild will help retain existing and attract new talented contributors to the Ethereum revolution.”

Core Contributor - “The Protocol Guild will help ensure Ethereum provides the world with the decentralized future it needs.”

Core Contributor - “The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. But without the parts there is no whole. This project addresses the parts without diminishing the whole.”

Danny Ryan (EF Protocol Support) - “Public goods are hard.”

Dmitry Khovratovich (EF Research) - “We work on a number of projects: VDFs, zero knowledge protocols, validator secure selection, – which all make Ethereum 2.0 faster, secure, and simple. We are taking the best from the most advanced cryptographic schemes today, and sometimes invent new ones.”

Fredrik Svantes (EF Security) - “Funding public goods/FOSS, especially on an individual level, is hard. Protocol Guild helps make this easier for individuals from across the world to partake in the future of Ethereum without also having to be part of a larger organization. By creating this sustainable effort, the Protocol Guild is helping to further provide long term health of the protocol layer, which is crucial for the applications running on top of it, by rewarding those who help build it.”

Gabriel (EF JavaScript) - “The sustainable and community-driven funding mechanic introduced by the Protocol guild will increasingly become, I believe, a foundation ensuring the perennity of the Ethereum ecosystem. It aligns us with our central decentralization ethos while at the same time rewarding and incentivizing long-term contributions to a groundbreaking public good.”

Gary Schulte (Hyperledger Besu) - “Narrowing the incentive gap between Ethereum core-protocol work and the more lucrative application space is an important effort worth putting time and resources into. ”

Holger Drewes (EF JavaScript) - “The Protocol Guild is a great chance to align core protocol incentivization with the core values Ethereum stands for.”

Jason Carver (EF Portal) - “We should explore many approaches for supporting collaboration. It’s a valuable and hard problem to generate and maintain public goods.”

Jiri Peinlich (Hyperledger Besu) - “We should be among the first who try new ways of organizing enabled by the decentralized paradigm. This example will hopefully inspire other groups to self organize and self govern. ”

Jordan Hrycaj (Status) - “Giving as much agency to independent contributors as possible.”

Justin Florentine (Hyperledger Besu) - “Funding public goods is a hard problem, I look forward to making some mistakes along the way so others can learn from us. Someone’s gotta try!”

Kaan Uzdogan (EF Solidity) - “The misaligned incentives in FOSS are well known and already causing problems. Particularly in the Ethereum space, the financial incentives to move away from protocol building to a for-profit project are high and we can’t rely on core developers’ altruism forever. Protocol Guild is a valuable experiment both for the sustainability of Ethereum infrastructure, as well as the broader open source ecosystem. ”

Kamil Sliwak (EF Solidity) - “I appreciate the idea behind Protocol Guild not only because it attempts to incentivize the work on the core protocols (which is very much needed), but also because of how it does it. I think there’s a very real need on the side of potential funders to know that their donations are addressing a real need and are reaching the right people. The group of protocol developers is a constantly moving target so by curating membership, Protocol Guild will make it easy to contribute towards it as a whole. I think that for the donor it will be more fulfilling than having to hand-pick individual developers or projects. The space does not suffer from the lack of funds and what is needed is really just a sensible way of channeling the available resources to where they can do the most good.”

Mamy Ratsimbazafy (Status) - “So that the value created by Ethereum isn’t just captured by those who build on top but also benefits those that build the foundations. We don’t want a situation like https://xkcd.com/2347/.”

Mark Mackey (Lighthouse) - “Every core developer I’ve talked to is well aware that they can earn significantly more working in other fields or even just at the application layer. I personally couldn’t even afford to join this effort until I was able to subsidize myself. This is strange for an industry acutely aware of incentive structures. If we care about the long-term heath of the base layer, it is important we mitigate this so we can attract and retain talent.”

Michael Sproul (Lighthouse) - “I love that Protocol Guild centers individual contributors ahead of organisations, and in doing so grants autonomy to all of the people working on Ethereum’s base layer. We have an opportunity to prove the viability of an alternative funding model for public goods, which I hope will inspire many more experiments in radical economic coordination.”

Nishant Das (Prysmatic) - “The Protocol Guild helps keep core developers focused on protocol work rather than jumping to the application layer where the upside is significantly more. Having a sustainable source of funding for public goods such as protocol work is valuable. ”

Phil Ngo (Lodestar) - “Protocol developers and researchers create the base foundation for which Ethereum stands upon. The amount of responsibility bestowed upon them is not necessarily incentivized monetarily nor does value generated on Ethereum trickle down to the base layer for protocol development. The protocol guild is a valuable experiment to incentivize great minds to contribute to the long-term future of Ethereum while having their basic needs met.”

Pooja Ranjan (Ethereum Cat Herders) - “Incentivizing contributors is a great way to keep them motivated for ongoing work. Many of us started as volunteers and I am expecting more to join in the future. Protocol Guild is a well planned initiative to incentivize community contributors to the Ethereum protocol development work.”

potuz (Prysmatic) - “End user applications stand on the shoulders of core development. In a world with multiple competing personal and institutional interests, this project helps keeping those interests as far away from core Ethereum development as possible.”

Preston Van Loon (Prysmatic) - “Client software powers the Ethereum network! Crafting mechanisms to support the teams working on it long into the future is an important project.”

Proto (EF Research) - “Protocol development is critical to the security, usability and long-term viability of the ethereum network. The protocol is a public good with insufficient funding, something that can change if there is a good platform for application-layer projects to contribute to.”

Raul Jordan (Prysmatic) - “The Ethereum Foundation has a philosophy of subtraction. That is, it aims to be irrelevant over time as grassroots teams take over development, research, and community. We started working on a consensus client because of the immense potential we see in introducing new engineers to build public goods for Ethereum, just as we did. We believe being an independent team that has built a popular client helps inspire others to do the same and grow the ethos of Ethereum’s decentralized development. hopefully the Protocol Guild will also inspire more contributors to join us in maintaining the core protocol.”

Taran Singh (Prysmatic) - “I believe a future with sustainable financial system is only possible when the people behind its success are working towards a common purpose without restriction and strings attached.”

Tim Beiko (EF Protocol Support) - “Aligning the incentives of the people supporting the Ethereum protocol with the success of the applications built on top of it allows these motivated contributors to keep doing what they do best, building Ethereum, while also being rewarded with some of the value they help create. ”

Tomasz Stanzeck (Nethermind) - “Protocol Guild is a well planned and honestly designed experiment for protocol development.”

Trenton Van Epps (EF Protocol Support) - “The Protocol Guild is Ethereum itself beginning to comprehend its agency - I’m happy to be part of such an important initiative. Long-term maintenance of foundational internet infrastructure should accrue material social, cultural and financial benefits to contributors.”

Zahary Karadzhov (Status) - “This project can empower many individual contributors to start working on Ethereum without the backing of a large corporate sponsor.”